behind the scenes artists: directors, producers, creators, screenwriters, etc.
(See also composers and Otakuphrenia: famous people)

I originally didn't plan on specifying in what capacity (or capacities) anyone was involved in making the movies or shows that I list here, but eventually I changed my mind. It will probably be a long time before I add notices of these things to old entries, but at least any time I add a new entry, I'll include letters to represent various jobs:
A=actor / AP=associate producer / Art=artist* / C=creator / CP=co-producer / D=director / Dev=developer / EP=executive producer / P=producer** / W=writer
(*I'll use "artist" as a catch-all for storyboard artist, animator, character designer, etc. **"producer" will also include consulting producer and supervising producer)

Abrams, J.J.
Almost Human (EP); Armageddon (W); Believe (EP); Joy Ride (W/P); Lost (C/EP); Revolution (EP); Star Trek (D/P); Star Wars (W/D); Super 8 (W/D/P); Undercovers (C/EP); and a bunch of things I haven't seen but would like to.

Anderson, Wes
Fantastic Mr. Fox (W/D/P/A); The Grand Budapest Hotel (W/D/P); Moonrise Kingdom (W/D/P). Besson, Luc
Arthur and the Invisibles (W/D/P); Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (W/D/P); Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (W/D/P); The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (W/D); The Fifth Element (W/D); Leon: The Professional (W/D); A Monster in Paris (CP); The Transporter (W/P) Brooks, Mel
Blazing Saddles (W/D); Get Smart (C/W); Life Stinks (W/D/P); Spaceballs (W/D/P); Young Frankenstein (W/D); and several things I hope to see someday. I also know him for acting, both live-action and voice work. Burton, Tim
Shorts like Vincent (W/D) and Frankenweenie (W/D), as well as feature projects like 9 (P); Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (P); Alice in Wonderland (D); Batman (D); Batman Returns (D/P); Batman Forever (P); BeetleJuice (D); Big Eyes (D/P); Big Fish (D); Cabin Boy (P); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (D); Corpse Bride (D/P); Dark Shadows (D); Dumbo (D/EP); Edward Scissorhands (W/D/P); Frankenweenie (D/P); James and the Giant Peach (P); Mars Attacks! (D/P); Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (D); The Nightmare Before Christmas (W/P); Pee-wee's Big Adventure (D); the Planet of the Apes remake (D); Sleepy Hollow (D); Sweeney Todd (D); and TV series Beetlejuice (EP); Family Dog (EP); Wednesday (EP/D); etc. Cameron, James
The Abyss (W/D); Aliens (W/D); Alita: Battle Angel (W/P); Avatar (W/D/P); Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (EP); Dark Angel (C/EP); The Terminator (W/D); Terminator 2 (W/D/P); Titanic (W/D/P); True Lies (W/D/P) Cannell, Stephen J.
The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (C); 21 Jump Street (C); The A-Team (C/W/EP); Broken Badges (C/EP); The Greatest American Hero (C/W/EP); The Hat Squad (C); Profit (EP); Riptide (C/W); The Rockford Files (C/W); Silk Stalkings (C); Stingray (C/W/EP); Wiseguy (C/W/EP); etc. Plus hosting Scene of the Crime (C); appearing as himself on Castle; etc. Carter, Chris
The Lone Gunmen (C/EP); Millennium (C/W/EP); The X-Files (C/W/D/EP); The X-Files: I Want to Believe (W/D/P); etc. Columbus, Chris
Adventures in Babysitting (D); Bicentennial Man (D/P); Fantastic 4 and Rise of the Silver Surfer (EP); Galaxy High School (C); The Goonies (W); Gremlins (W); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (D/EP); Home Alone (D); I Love You, Beth Cooper (D/P); Jingle All the Way (P); Monkeybone (EP); Mrs. Doubtfire (D); Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (D/P); Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (EP); Pixels (D/P); Stepmom (D/P), etc. Craven, Wes
Cursed (D); Dracula 2000 (EP); My Soul to Take (W/D/P); Nightmare Cafe (C/EP); A Nightmare on Elm Street (D/W); Red Eye (D); Scream (D); Scream 2 (D); Scream 3 (D); Scream 4 (D); Swamp Thing (D/W), etc. Day, Felicia See favorite actors
Caper (EP); Dragon Age: Redemption (EP); The Flog (EP); The Guild (C/W/P); LARPs (EP); Morganville (EP); Outlands (EP); Spooked (W/EP); Sword & Laser (EP); Titansgrave (EP); Written by a Kid (EP); etc.

del Toro, Guillermo
Blade II (D); The Book of Life (P); Crimson Peak (W/D/P); Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (W/P); Hellboy (W/D); Hellboy II (W/D); Hellboy: Blood and Iron (P); Hellboy: Sword of Storms (P); The Orphanage (EP); Pacific Rim (W/D/P); Pan's Labyrinth (W/D/P); Rise of the Guardians (EP); Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (W/P); Splice (EP)

Edlund, Ben
Angel (W/P); Firefly (P); Revolution (P); Gotham (Co-EP) Supernatural (W/EP); The Tick (the animated [C/W/CP] and live-action FOX series [C/W/EP], and the live-action Amazon series [C/W/EP]); Titan A.E. (W); The Venture Bros. (W) Ephron, Nora
Bewitched (W/D/P); Mixed Nuts (W/D); Sleepless in Seattle (W/D); When Harry Met Sally... (W/AP); You've Got Mail (W/D/P); etc. Faust, Lauren
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony (EP); TV series DC Super Hero Girls (Dev); Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Dev/W/P/Art); The Iron Giant (Art); My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (C/EP/W/Art); The Powerpuff Girls (W/D/Art); The Powerpuff Girls Movie (W/Art); Super Best Friends Forever (C/W/D/P/Art); etc. Filoni, Dave
American Dragon: Jake Long (Art); Avatar: The Last Airbender (D/Art); The Mandalorian (W/D/EP/A); Fillmore! (Art); King of the Hill (Art); Mission Hill (Art); Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie) (D/Art); Star Wars: The Clone Wars (series) (W/D/A); Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Art/EP/A); Star Wars Rebels (C/W/D/Art/EP/A); Star Wars Resistance (C/W/D/EP/A) Fuller, Bryan
The Amazing Screw-On Head (W/EP); Dead Like Me (C/P); Heroes (W/P); Mockingbird Lane (W/EP); Pushing Daisies (C/EP); Star Trek: Voyager (W/CP); Wonderfalls (C/W/EP) Henson, Jim
The Dark Crystal (W/D/P); Fraggle Rock (EP); The Great Muppet Caper (D/A); Labyrinth (W/D); Muppet Babies (C/EP); The Muppet Show (C/W/EP/A); The Muppet Movie (P/A); The Muppets Take Manhattan (EP/A); Sesame Street (W/D/EP/A); The Storyteller (C/EP); etc. Hitchcock, Alfred
Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Birds; Dial M for Murder; North by Northwest; Psycho; Rear Window; Vertigo; etc. Jackson, Peter
The Adventures of Tintin (P); District 9 (P); The Frighteners (W/D/P); King Kong (W/D/P); The Lord of the Rings trilogy (W/D/P); The Lovely Bones (W/D/P) Kelley, David E.
Ally McBeal; Boston Legal; Chicago Hope; Doogie Howser, M.D.; L.A. Law; Picket Fences; The Practice Kubrick, Stanley
2001: A Space Odyssey (W/D/P); A Clockwork Orange (W/D/P); Dr. Strangelove (W/D/P); The Shining (W/D/P) Lucas, George
The Indiana Jones movies (W/EP); Labyrinth; Star Wars; Willow; The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; etc. MacFarlane, Seth See voice actors M-N
He's done writing and/or producing and/or directing on episodes of other people's animated shows, including Dexter's Lab; Johnny Bravo; et al. But he's best known for his own animated creations, including American Dad!; Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy; The Cleveland Show; Family Guy; et al. He's also created and/or produced some live-action shows and movies, such as Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; and The Orville. He's also an actor, and while some of it is live-action, I'm more familiar with his voice work (which is why I have his links there instead of here). Oh, and he's also a singer.

Miyazaki, Hayao

Moffat, Steven
The Adventures of Tintin; The Curse of the Fatal Death; Doctor Who; Jekyll; Sherlock

Peele, Jordan
Get Out (W/D/P); Key & Peele (C/W/EP/A); Mad TV (W/A); Nope (W/D/P); Us (W/D/P) Raimi, Sam
American Gothic (EP); Darkman (W/D); Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (D); Don't Breathe (P); Drag Me To Hell (W/D/P); the Evil Dead movies (W/D/EP); The Grudge (P); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (EP); Jack of All Trades (EP); M.A.N.T.I.S. (C/EP); Oz the Great and Powerful (D); The Quick and the Dead (D); the Spider-Man movies (D); Spy Game (C/EP); Umma (P); Xena: Warriror Princess (Dev/EP) Roddenberry, Gene
Andromeda; Earth: Final Conflict; Star Trek and some of its spin-off series and movies. Sherman-Palladino, Amy
Gilmore Girls; and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Shyamalan, M. Night
The Happening; Lady in the Water; The Last Airbender; Signs; The Sixth Sense; Split; Unbreakable; The Village; Wayward Pines. Smith, Kevin
Chasing Amy (W/D/A); Clerks (W/D/P/A); Clerks II (W/D/A); Clerks (animated series) (W/EP/A); Dogma (W/D/A); Good Will Hunting (co-EP); Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (W/D/A); Jersey Girl (W/D); Mallrats (W/D/A); etc. Sorkin, Aaron
The Social Network; Sports Night; Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; etc. Spielberg, Steven
The Adventures of Tintin (D/P); An American Tail (EP); Animaniacs (EP); Back to the Future trilogy (EP); Casper (EP); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (W/D); Cowboys & Aliens (EP); E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (D/P); Extant (EP); Falling Skies (EP); Family Dog (EP); Freakazoid! (EP); The Goonies (W/EP); Gremlins movies (EP); Hook (D); the Indiana Jones movies (D); Invasion America (EP); Jaws (D); Jurassic Park (D); The Lovely Bones (EP); Memoirs of a Geisha (P); Men In Black movies (EP); Monster House (EP); Pinky & the Brain (EP); Poltergeist (W/P); Super 8 (P); Taken (EP); The Terminal (D/P); Terra Nova (EP); Tiny Toon Adventures (EP); Transformers (EP); True Grit (EP); Under the Dome (EP); War of the Worlds (D); The Whispers (EP); Who Framed Roger Rabbit (EP); etc. Straczynski, J. Michael
Babylon 5; Crusade; etc. And I'd like to read some of his comics someday.... Tartakovsky, Genndy
Dexter's Laboratory (C/W/D/EP); Hotel Transylvania (D); Powerpuff Girls (W/D/P); Samurai Jack (C/W/D/EP); Star Wars: Clone Wars (W/D/EP); Sym-Bionic Titan (C/W/D/EP). Thomas, Rob (not the singer)
Cupid (1998); Cupid (2009); iZombie; Veronica Mars; etc. Williamson, Kevin
Cursed (W/P); Dawson's Creek (C/W/EP); Glory Days (C/W/EP); I Know What You Did Last Summer (W); Scream franchise (W); Teaching Mrs. Tingle (W/D); Time After Time (C/EP); etc. Zemeckis, Robert
The Back to the Future trilogy (W/D) and animated series (C); Beowulf (D/P); Ghost Ship (P); Gothika (P); Johnny Bago (C/EP); Manifest (EP); Mars Needs Moms (P); Matchstick Men (EP); Monster House (EP); Pinocchio (W/D/P); The Polar Express (W/D/P); The Reaping (P); Romancing the Stone (D); Tales From the Crypt (EP); What Lies Beneath (D/P); Who Framed Roger Rabbit (D)

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